Privacy Policy Changes

Privacy Policy Changes

The most recent version of this Privacy Policy, as

revised, is effective as of Oct. 25th, 2004.

POOCHSCHOOL.COM PRIVACY POLICY

Poochschool.com, does not rent, sell or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties unless disclosed to you at the time such information is collected or unless you otherwise give consent.

If you receive a mailing from us, (a) your email address is either listed with us as someone who has expressly shared this address for the purpose of receiving information in the future ("opt-in"), or (b) you have registered or purchased or otherwise have an existing relationship with us. We respect your time and attention by controlling the frequency of our mailings.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect on our site and how we use such information. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. In addition,please review the Terms of Use posted at the site, which governs your use of the site. Your use of our site indicates to us that you have read and accepted our privacy practices, as outlined in this

Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

OFF SITE LINKS

While on our site, you may encounter links to other sites or online material. If you "click" on a link to such a third party, the "click" takes you off our site and to a third party’s site, which is beyond our control. These other sites may set their own cookies, collect data, and/or have their own privacy policies. This Privacy Policy only covers information collected by Pooochschool.Com, and does not cover any information collected by any other site. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any other site you visit.

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may disclose publicly in our chat room, message boards, or similar web pages. You should keep in mind that whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online – for example, via message boards or chat rooms – that information could be collected and used by people that you do not know. Poochschool.Com assumes no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information our users may disclose on the message boards, chat areas or other user forums on our site.

Under our privacy policy, personal information, is classified as information that could reasonably be used to specifically identify you (such as your name, address, birth date or e-mail address). Generally, you may browse our site without providing us with personal information. However, there may be times when we ask you to provide us with “opt in” information, such as when you choose to register with our site and/or for newsletters or choose to participate in an online contest, sweepstakes, survey or voting procedure. We may also ask you to provide us with demographic information or information regarding your interests, hobbies or similar information. We reserves the right, at any time, to add features to our site that require you to register or otherwise provide personal information, including credit card information, or to require registration to access our site. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of or participate in some of our site’s features.

We may provide you the opportunity to e-mail a friend an article, electronic greeting card or other special feature from our site. The e-mail addresses you supply us for those activities will be used to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send you or your friend any other e-mail communications.

Poochschool.Com does not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13) years of age: The content of our site is not directed to children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 years of age, do not send any information about yourself to us.

If we discover that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will immediately delete that child’s provided information from our database.

GENERAL NON-SPECIFIC INFORMATION COLLECTION:

When you visit the site, our web server automatically collects site usage information. Site usage information is anonymous. Basically, it describes how our visitors use and navigate our site, and it includes the number and frequency of visitors to each web page and the length of their stays. We collect the anonymous information automatically sent to us by your web browser, such as browser type, referrer data that identifies the web page visited prior and subsequent to visiting our site, and IP address. We also may determine what technology isavailable through your browser in order to give you the most appropriate version of a web page. For example, you may have installed a version of Flash, consequently we would then send you an appropriate Flash version of the web page rather than an HTML page.

IP ADDRESSES:

An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer or network when you are on the Internet. It does not reveal any personal information about you. When visitors request pages from our site, our server log's the visitor’s IP address. This is standard Internet protocol, almost every Site does this, we are no different. IP addresses are used by us for a variety of reasons, such as system administration or to audit the number of visits to different pages/areas on our site.

COOKIES:

Cookies are information files that we may place on your computer to provide extended functionality and to personalize your experience at our site.

We may use cookies for a number of purposes. For example, we may use cookies to track usage patterns on the site and we may use cookies when we conduct polls and sweepstakes to limit multiple responses and registrations. Or, we may use cookies to record registration and personalize your information, enabling you to save your user name and password. We do not store any of your personal information in cookies, but we may link the cookie to any information we collect. You can, without any problem, disable cookies on your computer by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your browser. It is possible that some parts of the site will not operate correctly if you disable cookies. You should consult with your browser’s provider/manufacturer if you have any questions regarding disabling cookies.

HOW WE USE COLLECTED PERSONAL INFORMATION

Poochschool.com, may use your information to provide the information/content you have requested, to contact you or to fulfill prizes in connection with a contest or sweepstakes, to contact you about new programs, products, features or services, or for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection. We may also use your personal information to contact you regarding your use of our site or changes to our Privacy Policy, Terms of Use or other policy or terms that affect you and your use of our site.

If you e-mail someone else an article, electronic greeting card or other special feature from our site, we will use the information you provide about someone else to send that person the requested e-mail.

We may use information collected about our users to improve the content and navigation of our site, or for other internal purposes.

THIRD PARTY CONTRACTOR/SERVICES:

Occasionally we may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include credit card payment processing, hosting our site, sending communications on our behalf, hosting message boards or other user forums, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, creating, hosting and/or running contests/sweepstakes/games and providing customer service.

These third parties may have access to our users personal information in order to provide these services to us or on our behalf, but they are not permitted to use it for any other purposes, whatsoever.

An exception would be where you personally “opt in” to that third parties mailing list or database. Therefore, your personal information was obtained by the third party, in “direct” contact with you, and not released by Poochschool.Com for third party’s general use..

DISCLOSURE TO THIRD PARTIES:

Poochschool.com, may disclose anonymous, aggregated user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes. For example, we may disclose how many individuals visited certain areas of our site, or how many men or women receive our newsletter.

However, Poochschool.com, does not rent, sell or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties unless disclosed to you at the time such information is collected or unless you otherwise give consent, other than in the following limited circumstances:

(A) Legal action.

Poochschool.Com may disclose information about our users, including personal information, when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our site and applicable laws, or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our site. We may also disclose user information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability, to protect or defend our rights or property or protect the safety, rights or property of our users.

(B) Restructuring/Corporate changes.

Poochschool. Com may sell, transfer or otherwise disclose user information, including personal information, to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, the sale of substantially all assets, or other fundamental corporate change in regard to Poochschool.Com.

SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Poochschool. Com takes steps to secure the data you submit to us, including limiting the number of people who have physical access to our user data.

We also provide additional security at our server and operate on a secure server. (Click logo to view our Secure Server Certificate).

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit and you do so at your own risk.

CONSENT TO TRANSFER

Poochschool.Com is operated in the United States. If you are located or reside elsewhere outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By using our site, participating in any of our services or contests and/or providing us with your information, you consent to this transfer.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Poochschool.Com reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time at its sole discretion. We will post any changes here, so be sure to visit this section regularly for updates.

USER ACCEPTANCE OF THIS POLICY

By using the site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

However, we will only use the personal information you provide to us in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy, unless you give us your consent.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@poochschool.com.